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1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1. The Greek World; 1. Xenophon and the Muleteer: Hubris, Retaliation, and the Purposes of Shame; 2. The Spartan Krypteia; 3. Where to Kill in Classical Athens: Assassinations, Executions, and the Athenian Public Space; 4. The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Violence against Women in the Athenian Courts; 5. Violence against Slaves in Classical Greece; 6. The Greek Battlefield: Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare; 7. Violence at the Symposion; Part 2. The Roman World. |
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8. The Topography of Roman Assassination, 133 BCE-222 CE9. Urban Violence: Street, Forum, Bath, Circus, and Theater; 10. Violence against Women in Ancient Rome: Ideology versus Reality; 11. Violence and the Roman Slave; 12. The Roman Battlefield: Individual Exploits in Warfare of the Roman Republic; 13. War as Theater, from Tacitus to Dexippus; 14. Manipulating Space at the Roman Arena; 15. Party Hard: Violence in the Context of Roman Cenae; Footnotes; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring, would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate. That location asserted Senatorial superiority over a perceived tyrant, and so proclaimed the pure republican principles of the assassins. The contributors to The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World take on a task not yet addressed in classical scholarship: they examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. After an introduction explaining the "spatial turn" in the theoretical study of violence, "paired" chapters review political assassination, the battlefield, violence against women and slaves, and violence at Greek and Roman dinner parties. No other book either adopts the spatial theoretical framework or pairs the examination of different classes of violence in classical antiquity in this way. Both undergraduate and graduate students of classics, history, and political science will benefit from the collection, as will specialists in those disciplines. The papers are original and stimulating, and they are accessible to the educated general reader with some grounding in classical history. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
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Violence -- Rome.
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Violence -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General. |
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Civilization, Greco-Roman |
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Violence |
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Greece https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxd6hw8HtWYq9JY6hjjYP |
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Rome (Empire) |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-2017, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtwHvKphHxHkKXv7bcfq
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Riess, Werner, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Topography of violence in the Greco-Roman world. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016 (DLC) 2016009981 |
| ISBN |
9780472121830 (electronic bk.) |
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0472121839 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472119820 (hardback) |
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0472119826 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.8769247 |
| Report No. |
JSTOR purchased |
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